different between exuberance vs aliveness

English

Etymology

From French exubérance, from Latin exuberantia (“superabundance”), from exuberare (“to grow thickly, to abound”); from ex (“out”), and uber (“udder”), and originally would have referred to a cow or she-goat which was making so much milk that it naturally dripped or sprayed from the udder.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ks?ju?.b???.?ns/, /???.?u?.b???.?ns/

Noun

exuberance (countable and uncountable, plural exuberances)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being exuberant; cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness.
2. An instance of exuberant behaviour.
3. An overflowing quantity; superfluousness.

Synonyms

• ebullience

Translations

English

Etymology

alive +? -ness

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??la?vn?s/

Noun

aliveness (usually uncountable, plural alivenesses)

1. The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.
   • 1920, Jack London, Hearts of Three, New York: Macmillan, Chapter 18, p. 231, [1]

     […] her eyes betrayed a complicated totality of paradoxical alivenesses.

   • 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Beacon Hill," [2]

     Sea-water wet their feet, wind tossed their hair, excitement quivered in every fibre of their aliveness.

   the aliveness of the colours in a painting

Anagrams

• leaviness, vaselines